Autumn Update 2025
18th December 2025

I thought it time for another update blog. (Later addition… ah, yes definitely, I started this early November!) This one I’ll be trying to stick to what’s gone on and how the last few months have been, with less of the broader philosophising reflections. Partly to try and keep it concise, partly because there’s not […]

I didn’t die yesterday
16th September 2024

I didn’t die yesterday. This is of course true every day we wake up – but we don’t often think about it. But yesterday I came much closer than usual – how close, I don’t actually know, but close enough for concern and a reminder of mortality and to be grateful for being alive.

This post is a jumbled mixture of how ill I am, and reflecting on the severity and strangeness of the condition. How Ill I am I have post-acute covid syndrome (aka long covid). At the moment, I can’t walk out of the house, have a normal conversation, or sit at a table and eat a […]

In December, after a couple of months of health improvement, I got quite suddenly much worse, ending up severely ill for 5-10 days, feeling like I was more than halfway to dead This blog is about that experience. I am writing this in early January, recovered from the worst of it, though still very limited and fragile.

Or: How training parkour has helped me manage being crippled Our entire existence is movement, in one form or another. Yet most of it is unconscious, without attention, just happening as our routine patterns. But how about if we treated the everyday as a movement practice? Recording: I recorded this post so that if you […]

Content note: talks about death, disability, chronic illness, exercise and fitness I thought I would write a blog post about my experience with Long Covid, which is still debilitating and significantly affecting my life 8 months after infection. I *think* I am still gradually and slowly improving, though it may also have reached a plateau […]

PB-flapjack-cookies
15th November 2021

This is a recipe for some cookies which are low FODMAP, gluten free and dairy free, and hit the spot just right for me. Since developing some food intolerances (FODMAP), my food has been much more limited. With no wheat, that’s meant no cake or pastries; occasionally gluten free flour replacements can work but it’s […]

Exercise/Health/Food
Christmas Eve Fast
24th December 2017

(today I fasted for gratitude and empathy) Today – Christmas Eve, as I write this – I’ve decided to fast. Drinking is allowed, but only if it has no calories – so that’s tea and water for me – and I decided coffee would be cheating a bit too. No food all day though. Actually, […]